Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-22
State AFFAIRS.
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at sl260 each, and the salary of the five
second assistant clerks at 5000 EACH"
! oy Senator Burney.
To this amendment Senator CIaibourne
onered an amt ndment to add at the end
OF lines IL and -, land who shall be
females with q salary of 5000 He
gave as his reason for Offering
! this, amendment that he had EMPLOYED
fd1fsdy in his office who is now dong the
WORK OF three men, He also claimed that
there were numbers of ladies, the wives
and daughters Of soldiers VINO had per
lshed 10 the late war, who were in every
particular competent 10 fill these places.
VINO were begging for work. The amend
ment was ado pied
| THE SENATE SUBSTITUTE LAND RIII
) Inc senate substitute land bill came up
as speclsl order in the House sgaiu this
morning, and cons derable discussion was
engaged In over the adoption of an
amendment that provides when g town is
| located upon section sold under this
sct,the purchaser may pay the entire priu-
clpal and interest by complying with Ger
tain details, and also an amendment ex-
ceptlng from lease such lands as are suit-
a0Ie for agriculture by irrigation when
the occupants rOvide suitable openings
and watering pisces for cattle every three
miles. The bill then passed 20 the third
reading.
ONLY TEN MINUTES TO SPEAK.
AT the night session IF the House Mr..
Dolen onered resolution which reads:
'Whereas, the end of the present SEES
al n Of fhas I
preaching; be it
Resolved, that no speech shall be
longer than five minutes in length. and
tnere shall not be more than one speech
by any member on the same subject"
Mr.. Alexander moved to amend bv
striking out five and inserting twenty
nine. Lost.
MIR. Mills offered an amendment to
strike out five and insert ten before min
utes, which was adopted.
Tnis resolution provided q humorous
debate aud a great deal of bandiase
was INDUCED ia by the members, VINO
accused each other of having q superb
bundsnce Of gas.
DECOYING A MINOR FROM HIS PARENTS
The most extensive discussion during
the night session grew out Of the con-
sideratlOn OF bill To punish any person
enticing minor away from his pareGts
without their consent The bill received
q strong support from Mr.. McCaleb 4nd
Mr.. Moore OF Travis, who set fourth the
great evils attendant on the practice OF
entictng minors away from home, often
times when they were the only
support of s. widowed mother. Some OBJ
lection TO the bill was urged because
Boys in the CCtJ n picking portions of
the state went from county 30 county to
engage in the work and consequently it
would work hardship. This objection
was met by the assertion that parent
could give a written consent. The bill
passed 70 en3rOs>nent
SELLING BEEF WITHOUT PRODUCING THE
HIDES.
Mr. .BrOWning's bill to make it a penal Of
Tense TO sill fresh beef By any person ex-
Cept regular butchers without producing
the hides and ears, so that any person
who desires can examine them, was taken
up out OF its ORDER ard considered.
great deal OF discussion was in
dulged in from sectional standpoint.
The House adjourned, leaving this bill
the pending business.
THE CANFIELD NATTER
Mr.. CaL field was released from iall this
evening about O'Clock and, it is re-
ported, departed Immediately for San
Antonio. Very lutte is said about the
affair now, and il seems to have been
dropped Cy common consent.
GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL.
The House general appropriation bill
;ame up as general order of business at
O'Clock P. m. E4ch department aggre-
rates as follows: